Ujjal Biswas
Indian politician
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Ujjal Biswas is an Indian politician and the present Minister of the Science, Technology and Bio-Technology department in the Government of West Bengal.[1] Till 2022, he was the minister for correctional administration. He is also an MLA, elected from the Krishnanagar Dakshin constituency of Nadia district in the 2011 West Bengal state assembly election.[2][3][4]
Ujjal Biswas | |
|---|---|
| Minister of Science, Technology & Bio-technology Government of West Bengal | |
| Assumed office 3 August 2022 | |
| Governor | C .V. Ananda Bose |
| Chief Minister | Mamata Banerjee |
| Preceded by | Ratna De (Nag) |
| Member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly | |
| Assumed office May 13, 2011 | |
| Constituency | Krishnanagar Dakshin |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 June 1954 |
| Party | All India Trinamool Congress |
Family
Ujjal Biswas is from a Mahishya family of freedom fighters who participated in various agitations against the British rule such as Indigo revolt leader Digambar Biswas under whose leadership the indigo farmers protested against the European Indigo planters.
Anushilan Samiti revolutionary Basanta Kumar Biswas and also, freedom fighter Manmathanath Biswas also happen to be from the same family.[5]